Marinette ships spared cuts, for now

9:02 PM,
Apr. 29, 2014

The future USS Milwaukee is christened during a ceremony at Marinette Marine Corporation, Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Funding for naval combat ships built by Marinette Marine Corp. has remained largely intact in initial budget legislation released Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by the House Armed Services Committee.

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Donovan Slack
Post-Crescent Media Washington bureau

Funding for naval combat ships built by Marinette Marine Corp. has remained largely intact in initial budget legislation released Tuesday by the House Armed Services Committee.

The legislation, which still must pass the committee and House, would authorize funding for two littoral combat ships to be built, one by Marinette, a subcontractor of Lockheed Martin, and another by Alabama contractor Austal USA. It also authorizes funding for each to begin work on a second ship.

The Obama administration had proposed cutting this year's order of ships from four to three and said production would ...